Philip Remus

Philip Remus was born in Lewisham, London on 14th March 1962. From a young age he found himself interested in writing; he always had stories swirling round in his head. However, he didn't get the chance to pursue this interest as he grew older and had a manic and varied career in the world of photography, carrying out work for such big organizations as Vogue and Orient Express. He also dabbled in music video production.

After lifelong Osteoporosis in his back finally took its toll, he was confined to his home, no longer able to organize photoshoots and travel round the world. However, this was the catalyst for Remus to chase his lifelong passion for imaginative and creative writing.​To date, Remus, as he prefers to be called, has written and published 4 books so far, and is working on his 5th Novel, and planning the third book in the Gods of Men series, a dramatized account of the Peloponnesian War from the Spartan perspective. Remus specializes in hard hitting and thoughtfully researched Historical no holds barred literature, set primarily in ancient Greece and Rome, though his most recent novel, “Fatal Charades” is an insightful spy thriller set during the final few years of the Weimar Republic.

Gods of Men, Where the Spartans Are Made

Historical

Lysander, disadvantaged by his mothax status, is nonetheless determined to succeed in the harsh Spartan Upbringing. To achieve and shine as no boy before him since the age of the heroes.

Born under lucky omens, it’s not long before the boy is noticed by one of the most powerful men in Sparta, who, knowing that Lysander is favored by the gods themselves, quietly guides him towards a destiny that will one day change the world and the very course of human history in what will become one of the bloodiest and bitterest wars in Ancient history, marking a distinct change in the morality of warfare that resounds into our own age.

He is, from the youngest age, tempered in a crucible of unrelenting violence and cruelty. And Inspired by the young warrior Brasidas the Tamer of Helots, (a man with a destiny of his own) and a commander of those most feared of the Spartans, the 300 Hippeis, Lysander learns and masters the bloody mysteries of Aries like none before him.

But there’s another side to the boy Lysander that draws him in into a strange and secret friendship with a helot servant, Epiphanes. As they grow older, the bond between them grows stronger, the dynamics of their friendship gradually changes, drawing them into a world of sexual awakenings and an ever greater need for each other. But with Tellis, nothing happens by accident…

This first book charts the life and times in a fictionalized account of Lysander’s childhood and youth, growing up in the infamous Spartan Agógé. Set against a backdrop of real historical events, as Greece is gradually drawn towards an inevitable war with itself, Gods of Men draws mostly from the Spartan perspective of the Peloponnesian War. Here we glimpse inside one of the most mysterious and closed societies in human history, recounting international political events going on around one of Sparta’s greatest heroes in his most formative years. Unapologetically violent and unsettling at times, the tender moments in this well researched book remind us that these were human beings after all…

Gods of Men, The Delian War

Historical

Lysander of Sparta, now a young warrior, longs for command and the much anticipated war with the Athenian Empire to earn his place through the tests of war and become the warrior he was born to be. He dies not have to wait for long…

Far away from Sparta, a great naval battle is fought between the mighty fleets of Corinth and Megara against Corinth’s ancient former colony, Corcyra, which has made an alliance with Athens, who have dispatched ten warships to join the Corcyraean fleet near some islands called Sybota. Little did anyone know, that from this battle, the bloodiest war in Greek history would spring…

As the greatest army ever massed on the Isthmus of Corinth prepared its invasion of Attica, Brasidas is sent with 300 hoplites to Messene, to put down any signs of helot rebellion and to patrol the coast. Lysander, now an elite of the Spartan hippeis (Dioskouri) is also dispatched to Messene on a separate mission. To take command of a small militia at the city of Methone, in defence against possible Delian skirmishes, little knowing that a fleet of 150 Delian war triremes, a 100 of them Athenian is sailing for the poorly defended city, with an invasion force of near a thousand hoplites marines.

Besieged, Lysander can do little against such a force but fight to the very death, street by street, and with just a handful of Spartans, and a militia of loyal helots, he must hold Methone and hope that help will arrive in time.

Pericles of Athens, has not only taken on the might of Sparta, he has taken on the might of the gods themselves and soon, the shadow of Death passes over Athens with the outbreak of plague, plunging the city into a disturbing and surreal world of madness and death…​Sample

Fatal Charades

Historical, Thriller, Gay, Nazi Germany

In a dramatic departure from his Classical Historic fiction, Philip Remus visits the Weimar Republic during its anguished death throes in this fast paced thriller at the beginning of the Abwehr’s resistance to Hitler, waging a secret and bloody war against the Nazis to prevent them from seizing power, or plunging Germany into civil war.

Karl is a young, handsome and gifted officer cadet, who defies the odds by gaining entry into prestigious officer training war academy, Preussische Kriegsakademie. Despite his troubled background, he thrives amongst the highborn Prussian officer class, and even exceeds them through his determination to succeed as a Reichswehr staff officer.

It’s not long before Karl comes to the attention of Oberst Max (Maximillian) Count von Wallenberg, chief of a covert team of handpicked Abwehr agents, whose mission it is to prevent the Communists and Nazis from gaining power in Germany. As the situation with the Nazis becomes more critical, and after the loss of several agents, Max recruits Karl to his unit. At the same time, Karl, hungry for company, starts a passionate, sexually charged and highly secret love affair with an attractive young man named Oliver...

Meanwhile, In Vienna, it is discovered that scandalous information concerning Adolf Hitler is contained in a dossier. But where is this dossier? Who has it? When it is discovered who possesses it, and that it may be hidden in a boarding house owned by eccentric lesbian opera singer Fräulein George and her eclectic mix of young male tenants, it's decided that Karl is the perfect candidate to infiltrate the house and retrieve the dossier.

However, very worryingly for Karl, the Nazis are only a step behind the Abwehr, and Nazi convert Schreck has dispatched a ruthless, sociopathic killer, Bruno Metz, to find the dossier and kill everyone who knows about it. And so begins a bloody and suspenseful life and death pursuit through Bavaria…

Collegium, Blood of Fire

Historical, Ancient Rome

Egypt has fallen to Octavius's legions. Cleopatra Ptolemy and Antonius are dead by their own hands – the long civil wars are over and now his mind turns to the conquest of the barbarians of Moesia and the capture of the Danube, and completing the two centuries old conquest of Hispania.

But Octavius’ position is far from secure. The renegade legate of the III Aegyptus, still loyal to Antonius, Titus Eximius has escaped, his course set on Octavius' destruction; he turns to the Barbarians of Moesia to raise an Army to march against Octavius. Meanwhile, in Rome, treachery and conspiracy is growing in the Senate, led by Fannius Caepio. ​Amidst these dangers, Calvinus sends his young protégé, Prefect Sabinus Maximo Cerialis, (son of the infamous Bastard of the Aventine, First Centurion of the V Macedonica Nepos Maximo) to hunt Titus Eximius down and kill him and the pursuit begins across the empire, to its ultimate climax in bloody fields of war-torn Moesia…

After the Mushrooms, NORAD's Ghost

Science Fiction

The humans species is on the cusp of extinction with less than a hundred million humans left alive on the planet and over 97% of all humans made infertile by inherited genetic mutations caused by radiation contamination. In less than two centuries, the last of our kind will be extinct. But one unsuspecting human has the “Genesis” nanite in his brain.

It’s the late Sixth Century of the New World era, over 500 years after the nuclear holocaust of Old World year 2025, and much of the world is still uninhabitable, where the crumbling cities of the Old World civilization lay forgotten and cursed, half buries in the wilderness. But when an Old World automated defense system NORAD is accidentally reactivated by the technologically advanced Silosians, it begins a countdown to unleash Armageddon in a matter of days. The Silosians send their brightest and newest novice, the genius eighteen-year-old Thundersky Reece and a team of crack special forces to get the novice to the flooded ruins of Manhattan, where the monster system lies in its dark subterranean lair.

When the team’s aircraft is brought down in the Appalachian Mountains by a rebel “Dusteater” faction, Thundersky Reece and the three surviving members of his team must get to Manhattan at all costs, knowing they have to cross hundreds of miles of barren and often radioactive wilderness filled with Feral cannibals, fanatical Godders and the powerful Virginia Dusties, who are hot in pursuit of them.

Thundersky is the “Genesis Child” and buried in his brain – a secret that has been protected for almost two decades – a secret even he is unaware of. A secret that can unite humanity, cure the effects of radiation and reverse the infertility – a secret that can destroy the power of the Silosian Scholars, who will stop at nothing and sacrifice everything, including the future of the human species itself to destroy the “Genesis Child” to preserve their own positions of power.